How the word 'woke' was weaponised by the right

How the word 'woke' was weaponised by the right - The Guardian

The term is meant to denote an attentiveness to important issues. But the likes of Laurence Fox and Toby Young have begun using it in a very ...

Reclaiming the Word “Woke” as Part of African American Culture

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the NAACP through its units encourages a historically accurate and correct use of the term "Woke" when its misuse is identified.

How "woke" became weaponized in the culture wars - LSE Blogs

In our research, we chose the word woke because it came to prominence in the American lexicon after police murdered George Floyd in Minnesota in ...

How the Word 'Woke' Was Co-Opted And Weaponized

Modern conservative use of the word “woke” taps into a larger societal backlash against social justice movements and efforts to confront ...

How 'woke' became the word of our era | Society books | The Guardian

Woke has been weaponised, used in conservative media circles as an insult, often placed within quotation marks, to mean rigid, uptight and ...

How 'woke' went from a social justice term to a pejorative favored by ...

In linguistic terms, the idea of “staying woke” is actually just using the African American English aspectual marker “stay,” which can be used ...

How did the word 'woke' become weaponised? - Stylist

Right-wing politicians and commentators picked up on the rise of wokeness in popular culture and co-opted it to suit their own agenda. For them, woke has become ...

Doug Cuthand: Meaning of 'woke' now twisted, weaponized by far right

Doug Cuthand: Meaning of 'woke' now twisted, weaponized by far right. The terms woke and wokeness are thrown around with abandon in a way to ...

The Woke Movement and Backlash | The First Amendment ...

“Woke” refers to being aware of the society around you and speaking up for needed change or against perceived injustice. The word suggests ...

What is the history of the word 'woke' and its modern uses?

“Woke” is currently used by the political left to refer to progressiveness and social justice, while those on the political right have ...

What Does 'Woke' Even Mean? How A Decades-Old Racial Justice ...

Conservative politicians and pundits have co-opted “woke,” a term that originally meant to stay aware of racial injustice.

'Woke' has been weaponized to label those fighting oppression the ...

The word "woke" was used by social justice activists, but it has been turned into an insult by people on the right, who've also used ...

The word 'woke' has been weaponised — we need to reclaim it with ...

Civil rights for black people and people of colour would also have been seen as woke, and to a degree still is. The only way to nullify the bite ...

The meaning of woke | The Week

Today, however, woke is most commonly used as a pejorative term, or in a joking sense about any vaguely enlightened act. Woke 'weaponised by the ...

In Defense of 'Woke' - Governing Magazine

The right has appropriated and weaponized the term. Progressives ... woke,” inverted its meaning and weaponized it against liberal and progressive ...

How the right stole 'woke' and turned it into a derisive insult

The word that originated in African American Vernacular English to describe “awareness of racial or social discrimination and injustice” has ...

The weaponisation of the word 'woke' | Metro.co.uk - YouTube

The way 'woke' is used now tends to be very different from the original meaning of the word. Some would argue that the word has been ...

Why 'woke' became toxic | LGBTQ - Al Jazeera

But this broad use of the term has caused it to become heavily weaponised by both the left and the right, turning what was once a welcoming ...

How Woke Went From "Black" to "Bad" - Legal Defense Fund

... legislators pass a law to “stop woke” in light of the word's true history and commonly understood meaning, what are they really saying?

Opinion: The fight against 'woke' is really conservative gaslighting

To be clear, woke is not political, but it has been politically weaponized by bad-faith actors, mostly on the right. Being “woke” is not a term ...